The day after he had left me standing outside of the hotel I packed up my belonging to go to my parent's house during the reading week to celebrate our engagement with my family as my brother closest friends wedding day was quickly approaching the date of officially announced that we have finished every single meal plans preps for their wedding guests and setting up the venue for them to use for more than twenty guests, however, I was daydreaming of our wedding in the back of my mind when I was a kid, I always thought that marriage was a special intimate occasion for the families of the wedded ones who are celebrating their love for each other.

Ordering everyone else in the room around with my headset on my head, dressed in a leather jacket, light blue dress and ankle boots which I think suits the whole boss vibes for me especially when I was in charge of the main food service fully aware of what going to happen next instructing the other workers that have hired to consider to create deliciously also not too much overpowering on the seasoning with salt and pepper but they should try to minimise it by adding herbs and spices not to forget about the presentation should be reflecting the theme of the wedding which has been taking my whole morning.

"Lana, you have been so focused on this couple's wedding but you haven't been able to get some work done on your wedding day," said Cynthia, worried about how much work I have been using as an excuse for me not to be thinking about the mine wedding day.

As I was writing down on my noticeboard the next direction of our work here is done by next week would be the last day I would ever be planning someone else wedding menu for them since they have already sent me an email of some dishes there would have us served as a member of chefs or waiter/ waitresses at their wedding day. I don't know why everyone else thinks that I was going to have an emotional breakdown except for the fact that helping someone else with their wedding will remind me of him and me getting married someday in the future because I wish he would be here with me if it wasn't necessary for the reason of a couple of criminals are roaming around the streets.

Although, I think I would have liked to have a break from my only coping mechanism to replace the feeling of being alone without any clue what he was doing now and then, yet, I feel incomplete when he was not by my side or here to help me plans our wedding even if I knew that it would be worth a risk to marry him. I pulled out the chain of where my engagement was on as I was looking at it seems like this was the only thing that went right in my life and I soon bring the rings up to my lips to kiss it before putting it back where it was.

"It is my only coping mechanism for being bear the fact that he is out risking his life for something he had no choice but to be accepted it is the only way for us to be together without me getting hurt," I explained sadly to Cynthia.

My friends all decided to gather up to put me in the middle of their group hug to try to cheer me up in hopes that I won't be spending all my nights sitting on my bed in my room crying until I run out of tears eventually which does sound like a great plan for me at least it would numb my pain just for a while, and I think I was in hopes of getting any other works finalised by the end of this month.

We strolled all the way, through the town searching for a particular type of places to eat food, for example, restaurants, bars, pubs but none of them have met my criteria so we keep on walking around and happen to stop by McDonald to order our food whilst I was in the middle of ordering some food one man came up to me to explain something very important to me about my boyfriend/ fiance which has caught my attention because I miss Layton so much already.

The man cleared his throat and began to speak " excuse me, but do you happen to know a man called Layton Greer because he said that I should give this gift and card to you".

This man was dressed up as a janitor which seems highly likely that he would know my fiance well enough so I didn't reply to this man as I was trying to brainstorm up a plan in the back of my mind not to put both of us into harm way when he show me his badge from going undercover to show it himself as I was curious concerned about whether this man was trying the truth or not even though he could happen to be a criminal pretending to be a part of an ongoing investigation case by faking being an undercover agent.

I wasn't a gullible person who was falling for every single lie that everyone else would try to tell me what was the truth or lies, nonetheless, I had the previous trust issue thank to my lying cheating ex-boyfriend who's by far the worst kissed that I have ever had even if I gave him the benefit of the doubt that he would improve with time and effort. Unfortunately, I was wrong about him improving his skills but I was right about his cheating ways because my mother always used to say that a cheater never changes their spots to me and she said that she did get lucky when she found my dad.

"If you are really who you say you are then why are you dressed up as a janitor? and oh please, you must have brought that fake police officer badge from the Halloween costumes shop which is right across the street from on the left from here?" I questioned the man.

My food order had been called by one of the workers at the fast-food restaurant McDonald as I was going to get the food tray the same man disappear for a few minutes to go somewhere else in the restaurant so I decided walked towards my friends in front of the queue and head back to our table talking amongst each other when this man has an approach our table not giving up on whatever mission his boss or someone else has been sent here to do.

"Look, please hear me out that I'm one of those officers who is working on the same case as your fiance Mr Greer, but he has sent me here to give you this message in a card and he has brought you this gift," said the man who was not dressed as a janitor anymore.

Somehow, I didn't have any other questions or choice but to accept it as it seems to me that he was really good friend of my fiance in a short period of time, they have grown a bit closer than colleagues but now they are friends moreover, something inside my head decided to reasonable enough to listen to what this man has to say more about the case to me.

I thought about it before I started to realise that this man was appointed to be a part of his team even if he wasn't supposed to be here rather than just doing his job as a police officer and instead of refusing to come all over here, he made his mind to send someone else to check up on me.

"How is he doing over there at his temporary place, officer-"

Ambrose, interrupted by introducing himself as a member of the police department and investigator for my fiance Layton case.
"He is doing the best that he can even though he misses you so much and my name is Ambrose," said Ambrose.

Well, I guess we both miss each other out here not being able to be together which was very unbearable for both of us really who have to go through this process not knowing when one of us was going to come back home unless they have caught the fugitives even it seems to be a little bit unlikely to happen this quickly as possible since everything does take the time to work on a lead and there was nothing we can do about it. These police officers have been working on multiple crimes to dissolve them with sky-high rocking prosecutions coming up every day and a huge amount of paper feeling under the pressure to solve these crimes against the time.

Everyone knows how much it was killing me to be far away from him even more than getting one horrible grade on my assignment and suddenly ideas come to me that I should at least try to help on his case, even though he expects me to wait for him to deal with this all by himself as a choice to keep me safe. I think I just have to go to the gym to learn more about self-defence to be able to use it against any attackers attempts to hurt me and I will have to try to convince him to sign me up for self-defence lessons to learn how to properly defend myself.

"I want to help speed up the process of the case myself so that I can get him back home to me," I said sadly to Ambrose.

Quietly chuckling at my offer to help out with catching these criminals when Ambrose simply refused to let me help out claimed that it would be against everything Layton would want me to do even if it means that I could work regardless of whether he wanted me to join them or not. I will try to find a way to be involved in helping the police officers to arrest the criminals who have been running away from the police now.

An exhale came out of Ambrose's mouth before he could object to anything else, which I was asking for help to put me on this case, then Penelope my best friend added "according to some sort of study on a survey, it does reveal that women are more likely to solve a problem or a crack a crime scene before a whole team of males officers".

"Fine, but I will assign highly trained fighters and coaches in a gym to teach you, girls, how to defend yourself in a fight," Said Ambrose, giving in to getting involved with it.

We are all talking among each other writing down the dates of self defence lessons for a couple weeks to prepare for a mission to help him out with this situation and then he slides a business card over to me with a lighter before he gets up to walks out of McDonald's leaving the rest of us to enjoy our meals together to prepare ourselves for our next visit to the boutique wedding dress store to try on some more wedding dresses.

Penelope and I saw the most perfect wedding dresses for ourselves to try on in the changing room as she knew it was going be a good experience together even though she wasn't married yet somehow she convinced me to do a wedding photo shoot in this store not posting pictures online because I didn't want anything to jinxed my wedding day. We immediately tryouts six-seven wedding dresses walking out of the changing room like we were on the catwalk stage styling it out was totally fun as ours friends was giving us a standing ovation applauded by our friends and soon afterwards we took a break from our imagery catwalks to finish drinking our drink in a McDonald cup which seemed to be okay with the manager of the store since Cynthia aunts own the place.

We walked to a tattoo parlour to our tattoo done as I choose to get gardenia on one sleeve since they symbolises strength and new beginnings as I was also thinking about getting a dragonfly tattoo addition to my first one whereas the girls got a date of one of their parents birth, a quote from their favourite book and music notes.

"Tell me that you have fun without constantly worrying about what is going to happen next," said Penelope.

The delivery of my wedding dress was going to come in three-five working days. Also, it is a white sleeveless wedding dress as the top part of it looks like a corset and the other half of it which when it gets to my waist then goes down it flowy.

Not only does this mean I can tick off buying a wedding but I need to purchase the bridesmaid, maid of honour and the flower girl dressed choose a colour of my choice along with the rest of the wedding stuff like the seating plan, venue, church, food menu, culinarian and many other things that are on my list. To be honest, it was all so much easier to plan for my assignments than having to plan actual nuptials and maybe even if my friends and my mum was available throughout the whole weekend then I will consider asking her for help too.

"Thank you for trying to get me to realise that everything is going to be fine with him and me," I said appreciatively to Penelope.

Our journey back to campus wasn't long at all as we decided to take the bus there not long after we arrived in front of the University we headed straight into the library to finish off the article that we are writing about for the journalist clubs and once we are done with writing and editing it we send it straight to our journalist's team to finish it off with the finishing touches.

Marvin was heading straight in my direction so I quickly packed up my stuff putting it into my bag while zipping it up and running out of the library not because I was trying to avoid having a conversation with him but I was going to need all the help and energy I can get for practising how to defend myself by taking self-defence lessons. I don't think I would have the right amount of energy that was required for it furthermore, I think that Marvin has been sending out some pretty straightforward strong signals to me, which was making me realize that he had started liking more than just a friend now I have to distance myself from him.

It was a very long walk from campus towards the end of the road where my university halls were as well as other than my accommodation room wasn't on the ground floor and I took the stairs this time around therefore, walking up the stairs, opened my door to my room and went straight to bed.